Not Your Average Pet
by Joyce Griffith
  • November 5, 2022
  • 3 mins story
1. Tell us your story about a particularly memorable time in Eureka Springs. It can be funny, heart-warming, spooky, or otherwise!

Native Eurekan Joyce Griffith, nee Dowell, shares her story growing up in Dairy Hollow with her prankster older brother and their not-so-average family pets. 


This story is an excerpt from a longer interview conducted on July 29, 2022 for the Eureka Springs Oral History Project. Joyce's interview is one of 13 original long-form interviews recorded during Summer 2022 with funding from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan: Humanities in Libraries grant. . To listen to interviews in their entirety, visit the Podcasts page on our website, MyEurekaStory.org. New interview episodes, edited by volunteers from the Eureka Springs High School EAST class, are released monthly.

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